for free. I recognize some of em from the 60's.

Popular Mechanics

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Jim

THANK YOU! I love these.

BTW, the C&D ad came yesterday... thanks for that too. Ads like that are cool -- it's interesting to see how Mercedes was marketing the 240D 30 years ago. How times have changed!

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"Senior Luna, your sense of humor is still loco... but we love it, anyway." -rickymay ____ "Your sense of humor is still loco... " -MBeige ____ "Señor Luna, your sense of humor is quite järjetön" -Delibes

1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

It might give the ferals something to read on a Friday night & so give you a bit of peace & quiet on here!!
Smart move Jim !!

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I no longer question authority, I annoy authority. More effect, less effort....

1967 230-6 auto parts car. rust bucket.
1980 300D now parts car 800k miles
1984 300D 500k miles
1987 250td 160k miles English import
2001 jeep turbo diesel 130k miles
1998 jeep tdi ~ followed me home. Needs a turbo.
1968 Ford F750 truck. 6-354 diesel conversion.
Other toys ~J.D.,Cat & GM ~ mainly earth moving

When I was in junior high a friends dad died and he brought me several boxes of popular mechanics, popular science and mechanics illustrated, from the mid forties through 1963.

I read those things until I wore the covers off of them. Finally threw them all out when I moved here 27 years ago.

Great reading and a learned a lot.

Very cool stuff! Although most magazines have just become large advertisements with zero subscriber revenue, PM still remains one of my favorites.

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Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

I made a small fortune as a kid framing ads from the twenty's to forty's like Harley etc...

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Darryl, Hill
2005 SL55 AMG Kleemanized
1984 500 SEC
1967 W113 California Coupe
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We subscribed probably from around 1965 to 1974 so those really look familiar. A real slice of life from that period.

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80 300SD (129k mi) 82 240D stick (193k mi)77 240D auto - stick to be (153k mi) 85 380SL (145k mi) 89 BMW 535i 82 Diesel Rabbit Pickup (374k mi) 91 Jetta IDI Diesel (155k mi) 81 VW Rabbit Convertible Diesel 70 Triumph Spitfire Mk III (63kmi)66 Triumph TR4a IRS (90k mi)67 Ford F-100 (??)

I have a set of hard backed books, a DIY series by popular mechanics. They are filled with DIY articles from popular mechanics from the 60s. I think the books themselves were printed in the 60s. My friend found them stacked up next to a dumpster after waking up in a random apartment complex after a night of drinking during college. There are some pretty great articles in them. For example, How to target shoot in your house using wax bullets and shotgun primers. You'd never see that printed in a magazine today.

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A friend of mine built a shooting range in a hallway of his house. The only firearm we had was a .38, but with just primers and plastic bullets we had a first class time of things when his parents were not home. I think we were about 15 at the time and we were shooting into a large cardboard box. I think he got the plans out of Boy's Life.

Today he has a good sized ranch in central Texas. The last time I was there he had built a firing range 100 yards in depth. I reminded him of the hallway range and he commented on how much more one could do with hundreds of acres of land and a D-8 Cat.

I have my father's copies from the 1950s.

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6